The Ethiopian Embassy In The US Decisively Responded To The New York Times’ Disinformation

What’s so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for this latest information warfare provocation, hence the importance of the Ethiopian Embassy in the US responding as decisively as it did.

The New York Times (NYT) spread disinformation about the latest phase of the Ethiopian Conflict in its recent piece titled “Fighting Erupts In Northern Ethiopia, Shattering Ceasefire”, which prompted the Ethiopian Embassy in the US to decisively respond in a statement shared on their Twitter account so as to set the record straight. That country’s diplomats reminded everyone of their government’s commitment to hold African Union-led peace talks anywhere, about any subject, and at any time without preconditions. They also took issue with that outlet omitting any mention of the TPLF’s responsibility for starting the conflict in November 2020 after their long-planned and coordinated sneak attack against the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF).

Building upon that, another of their contentions was that the NYT falsely framed the conflict as having personally been commenced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed out of supposed malice for his political opponents. The Ethiopian Embassy in the US then drew a sharp contrast between their universally recognized and democratically elected government’s progressive partnership with the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) and the TPLF’s latest raid against one of its warehouses that was condemned by that global body. They then concluded by warning that “Inaccuracies like those presented on August 24 risk emboldening further aggression in Ethiopia and other parts of the world where democracy is under threat” before reaffirming that the NYT’s audience deserves to know the truth about this conflict.

Taken together, their response can accurately be described as decisive since it concisely corrected the record by sharing objectively existing and easily verifiable facts with that outlet’s audience, who might otherwise have unquestionably extended credence to the NYT’s artificially manufactured narrative and thus falsely thought that Ethiopia’s central government was to blame for everything. The reality is that this multipolar and historically diverse civilization-state has been victimized by a joint US- and Egyptian-led but TPLF-driven Hybrid War of Terror as punishment for its principled neutrality in the New Cold War between the West’s Golden Billion and the BRICS-led Global South. In fact, the latest round of fighting was once again initiated by the TPLF at its patrons’ behest to punish Ethiopia for its summer of success.

Since the hot stage of this preplanned conflict began almost two years ago, the dual American and Egyptian masterminds have relied immensely on information warfare to manipulate the global audience about its dynamics. From falsely alleging that a so-called “genocide” was taking place in the Tigray Region to recently claiming that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) bombed a kindergarten full of kids inside despite the school season having not yet begun (and being stopped entirely in that region since the conflict started), everything pushed about the central government by those two perpetrators and their media proxies has been nothing but lies. It therefore naturally follows that the NYT would also participate in this dimension of the Hybrid War by virtue of its global influence in shaping the narrative.

What’s so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for this latest information warfare provocation, hence the importance of the Ethiopian Embassy in the US responding as decisively as it did. Seeing as how the Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia probably won’t end anytime soon since its perpetrators refuse to let that multipolar civilization-state peacefully develop according to the vision of its democratically elected leadership, more such fake news and consequence responses should be expected in the coming future.